Why NNZ packaging?

Carbon Footprint

NNZ’s ambitions to reduce carbon footprint

Our ambitions
NNZ wants to make the living environment of millions of people more beautiful, healthier and more attractive. Together we stand for beautiful, healthy, fair and sustainable plants, so anyone is able to bring green life into his surroundings. We do this by continuously improving the connections and interactions between stakeholders, making sustainability transparent for all.

Our policy
It is stated policy of the NNZ Group to reduce, its environmental impact, where practicable. It is the overall strategy of our Group to improve both operational performance and a reduction in potentially harmful emissions to land, water and air.

Our ultimate aim and methods to get there
NNZ’s ultimate aim is a carbon balance as low as possible for our company to be achieved. To achieve this NNZ will:

Comply with all current energy legislation, seeking to meet or compensate legislative targets,

Minimise waste, promote recycling, and the use of recycled products to help reduce the burden of landfill, and therefore methane generation,

Continue to promote and design energy efficient and therefore carbon reducing packaging materials and concepts on behalf of our partners,

Membership of ‘Benefits of Nature’ for footprint calculations.
NNZ has become an active member of the program Benefit of Nature. This allows us to evaluate the footprint of our products and impacts of new materials and logistics channels : http://www.benefitsofnature.eu/. A footprint is a way to quantify the impact of something on the environment. The footprint calculation of Benefits of Nature includes as many as 33 different factors. When the calculation is completed, the total environmental impact of the entire company is known, of all processes and all products. the structure of the footprint is visible: from each product can be viewed how much impact each material has. At all levels, is visible which causes the impact and where improvements are possible.

Installing energy saving lighting in our offices and warehouse in Groningen and Rilland

Installation of solar panels at the headoffice in Groningen

This policy clearly identifies the responsibilities and procedures for achieving the Group’s stated objectives in all aspects of its activities leading to improved environmental performance, including reductions in both CO2, and methane emissions.

About NNZ

NNZ, creative expertise in packaging since 1922!

NNZ is a multinational company owned and run by the family Boot since 1922. Its employees create packaging solutions for their clients in the fresh produce and industrial market.
In 1922 NNZ started trading jute bags from 'Pakhuis Libau' in Groningen (The Netherlands), the start of a family business with international ambitions. Today, NNZ has grown into an organisation with more than 250 employees, serving clients from offices in Austria, BeNeLux, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA. In close cooperation with our partners in 40 other countries NNZ provides packaging solutions to a worldwide customer base.